GeekTyrant - News ITS ART Rusty metal material - vray blend In the following tutorial we will create an advanced rusty metal shader. Although the tutorial makes use of vray renderer’s vray blend material, you can also use shellac material if you are not a vray user. Create a vray blend material, and in the base material slot create basic blue metal material with the following settings: -diffuse color 47, 50, 119 -reflect color 40, 40, 40 -refl. -subdivisions 15 -BRDF – ward -bump map – noise (adjust the tilling and the size according to your needs). At this point, the material should look like the one in the rendering bellow. Now, let’s create a rust material. -diffuse – a rusty metal texture -reflection color – 10, 10, 10 -refl. -bump – a bump map similar to the one bellow. If you do a test rendering at this point, you should end up with something similar to the one bellow. The 2 materials now blend in a uniform manner. This is what I have used as a “blending mask”: After having done all of the above your final result should look similar to the one bellow.
Studio Daily 40 Matte Painting Masterpieces Jun 28 2010 Matte painting is a technique often used to create landscapes, sets and scenes for movies, TV and print when building a physical set or traveling to a particular location to film is either cost prohibitive or impossible. This technique requires a solid understanding of light, exposure, color theory and composition. Artist will often use a mix of digital painting, compositing and Photoshop magic to create the wonderful scenes we all enjoy in films. Today we present 40 Matte Painting Masterpieces from some truly talented artists. Beautiful Matte Painting Masterpieces Dan-Ka This photo realistic matte really draws you into a new world. Tigaer This fantastic scene transports you to another world. This stunning scene is on a grand scale. Mitsuk This beautiful image has melancholy feel to it. The foliage in the front of this scene really add to its perspective and grandeur. Tiberius This stunning visage show the artist’s mastery over lighting and exposure. Gordon Tarpley Wow. M.
3D Artist Hello and welcome to another exciting edition of 3D Artist magazine! You’ll be pleased to know that we’ve got another packed issue for you this month. First up is our tutorial written by the artist behind our beautiful cover image; in it Patric talks through some of the techniques he used to light and render this building. Continuing with the arch-vis theme, Poz Watson offers an in-depth look at the industry itself. In terms of tutorials, we’ve got a guide to product visualisation, (including tips for modelling, rendering and postproduction), as well as a fluid typography tutorial from artist Hussain Almossawi. For those of you out there who want to add a bit of character to your creatures, Teodoru Badiu offers his advice for creating fur in modo and Photoshop. Elsewhere in the Workshop section, you can follow our masterclass in KeyShot, create realistic demolition effects in RayFire and use GoZ to flesh out a base mesh.
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